Composition and order: Urban Image Construction in Large-scale CulturalEvents - Taking Sun Yanzhi's 2026 Hong Kong Concert as an ExampleZOU Qi(School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau City University, Macau 999078)[Abstract]: With the increasing demand for material and cultural goods, large-scale cultural eventshave become a new focus of urb…
City as an Immersive Theater - An Exploration of the Paths of City Renewal andthe Immersive Theater Festival in MacaoChen Beiyao Zhang ZhaoxiaAbstract: Guided by the concept of the "People's City", this study explores how Macao can draw onthe successful experience of the Avignon Festival in France to create an immersive city-theatre withbo…
The Underlying Logic, Narrative Framework, and Dissemination ofMacao-Themed Documentary CreationLi YuxuanAbstract:Macao-themed documentaries play a pivotal role in interpreting the essence of China'snarrative to the international community, refining the construction of national discourse systems, andenhancing global communication effectiveness. This…
Wandering in Heterotopia: The Politics of Sound and the Representation ofAphasia in the Film Abang AdikChen Xiaojian Jian GuidengAbstract:Abang Adik, a film written and directed by Malaysian director Lay Jin Ong, was released inmainland China on September 21, 2024. Employing a realist approach, the film focuses on themarginalized communities at the …
Power, Faith, and Craftsmanship: A Study on the Dynamics of the Sinicization ofGrotto Art ——Taking the Hexi Region as an ExampleLi ShulinAbstract:Grotto art initiated the process of sinicization upon its introduction to China. It retained theessence of Indian Buddhist art while integrating Central Plains aesthetics and local thoughts, thusforming …
An Analysis of Doming Lam's Chinese orchestral Piece Autumn Execution‘sCreative Features and Its Inspirations for Contemporary Music CreationLong QixinAbstract:Doming Lam's Chinese orchestral work Autumn Execution successfully integratestraditional Chinese musical elements such as pentatonic scales, Beijing opera gongs and drums, andopera recitatio…
Carnival of Narration: Narrative Art in Ge Fei's Avant-garde NovelsSun JingpengAbstract:Beyond the widely studied narrative gaps, narrative labyrinths, and narrative repetition, GeFei's avant-garde novels consistently deploy three key techniques: metanarration, polyphonic narration,and intertextual narration. While discussions of metanarration in Ch…
Representations of Zhang Qian in Silk Road Audiovisual Media:A Historical Poetics ApproachZhang YongAbstract:The ongoing proliferation and transformation of Zhang Qian's image in contemporaryscreen media poses an urgent poetic and political problem in need of interpretation. Drawing on themethodology of historical poetics and extending it to the hor…
Religion and Folklore in Japanese Masked PerformanceFeng SenAbstract:"Diverting deities" precedes "entertaining humans" - a common characteristic in theapplication of mask culture to ritual activities and theatrical performances across various nations.Mask art, in its form, undoubtedly reflects the ideology of its respective ethn…
Research on Innovative Pathways for Immersive Interactive Artin Macao Driven by DigitalizationGONG Yihan LIN TianyiGong Yihan Lin TianyiAbstract:Against the backdrop of global digitalization and the rise of the experience economy,immersive interactive art has gradually emerged as a new trend in cultural consumption and tourism.Macao has a unique adv…
Exploring the Influence of Shen Yinmo on Taiwan CalligraphyThrough the Lens of Wang JingzhiLI PeilingAbstract:Shen Yinmo once had a period of life in Chongqing to escape the war. During that time, heinteracted and discussed calligraphy, painting, and poetry with various academic elites, and manystudents came to seek advice on calligraphy. Among them…
[原文下載][Download PDF]Musical Notation of Urban Sonic Memory: An Interpretation of the Inherited Soundscape in the Cello Suite Impressions of MacaoDAI Dingcheng LV Jia XUE YanfangAbstract: Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Historic Centre of Macao stands as a living testament to the historical exchange between Eastern and Western civiliz…
[原文下載][Download PDF]Voices from the Margins: Othering Representation and the Multidimensionality of Local Identity in Macao CinemaXIAO Daibo CHEN ShaoleiAbstract: This paper focuses on the "othering" representations in Macao's film and television works and the multidimensionality of local identity, taking marginalized groups such as fo…
[原文下載][Download PDF]Seven Questions on the Tang Poem “Zhezhi”: Signifer and the Signified in Historical StructureLIU XiaoweiAbstract: This study adopts a historical-structural perspective to reinterpret the cultural positioning of the Zhezhi dance through a systematic analysis of 28 Zhezhi-related poems from the Complete Tang Poems.Unlike the …
[原文下載][Download PDF]Combine Song and Dance to Perform a Story——On the Forming Background and Functions of the Song-Dance Drama The Lanling WangZHANG SuwenAbstract: The “Lanling Wang” drama, Wang Guowei called it “the beginning of the formation of song-dance drama”(ge wu xi). Tracing its developmental trajectory, it evolved from folk song…
[原文下載][Download PDF]On the Ontological Differences of “Action”——A Phenomenological Discourse on the Formation Mechanism of the Objects of “Dramatic” and “Narrative”YANG JunqiAbstract: In Aristotle’s Poetics, the “praxical structure” formed by the interconnection of “event-action-plot” can be regarded as having laid the theoretical f…
[原文下載][Download PDF]Exploring New Pathways for Literary Research in the AIGC Era——Through the Lenses of Text-Centered and Reader-Centered TheoriesYAN ChiAbstract: Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC), as a product of human-machine interaction under the new generation of generative artificial intelligence technology, is increasingly…
[原文下載][Download PDF]On the Narrative Craft and Character Portrayal in Puxian Opera’s Ta San XingZHAO XihuaiAbstract: Ta San Xing, a contemporary Puxian opera written by the acclaimed playwright Zhou Changfu and staged by the Fujian Puxian Opera Theatre, has been met with widespread acclaim since its debut. Hailed by critics as “a milestone in …
[原文下載][Download PDF]Could the Proposal and Resolution of the Republic of China Decide Whether Xiao Shi Holds a “Completely Westernized” View of Music?WU YuehuaAbstract: Xiao Youmei is the founder of China’s professional music education and has made great contributions to the development of Western music China. However, there has always been d…
[原文下載][Download PDF]The Generation of Historical Images in the 1970s——Starting from Foucault and the Cahiers du Cinéma InterviewXU NiyuYU ShengkaiAbstract: In the 1970s, French thinker Michel Foucault was invited by the editors of Cahiers du Cinéma to participate in a discussion on the theme of “Anti-Rétro”. In the interview, Foucault not on…
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